Factory 619 bootstrapped the first fully operational startup studio in Tunisia & North Africa. So far, We founded/co-built, and nurtured 7 startups. To ensure effective venture building our factory is fueled by the synergy that exists between its four divisions.

startups to be
built with us

Our journey started one year ago, with the aim of bringing 20 project ideas into the light during our first 3 cycles. By the end of our first cycle, we have reached the milestone of 7 created startups (5 were fully and solely founded by our Startup Studio)

The Studio

Building Startups from the ground up

The Foundry

Co-Founding Startups With Our Entrepreneurs

The Forge

Tailored Services For Startups And Corporates

The Garage

Our Pre-Incubator & Pre-Accelerator Programs

The Studio

The Ongoing Mission

The Studio is the first division created within the Factory 619. It carries one of our most important DNA components : Build, Repeat & Release. By leveraging technological innovation, it focuses on validating business ideas and converting them into scalable tech startups.

The Core Team

The Studio's core team is a pluridisciplinary, multi-skilled set of people : Product builders, business hustler, and talented engineers. Through their combined performance and expertise, they build the products that propel our startups off the ground and into the market.

The Unique Mindset

It is really what drives our passion and transforms it into ambition. We are a team of entrepreneurial minded doers. We waste nothing, we re-use every resource at reach, and we perceive risk-taking as an opportunity to disrupt and reshape industries.

I2P2P®

FundRaising

Scaling

Internal Ideation

Prototyping

MVP

Go-To-Market

Growth

Product Validation

Incorporation

4Labs

⟶ Sales enablement SaaS Product for Pharmaceutical industries

Katomi

⟶ Organize, Share, and Analyze your medical photos

Runnel

⟶ Build Games that streamers love

DropGen

⟶ Automated Airdrops & Bounty Programs

AfroStar

⟶ Deezer for Africa

FoundPad

⟶ Founders assistant : From Ideation to Startup Launch

Hablo

⟶ Your baby's guardian angel

The Foundry

Co-Founding Startups & Building Companies Altogether With Top Notch Entrepreneurs

Business Co-Founder

As a future CEO, the candidate will be fully responsible for validating and converting an idea to a 10x-growing business, mastering every details of the market and knowing all the secrets to customer nurturing. Factory 619 handles the product building process and assists with business-wise efforts

Technical Co-Founder

As a future CTO, the candidate will be the architect of an outstanding product for the co-founded startup. Technical scaling, product building and features roll out will be the main roles to be fit. Factory 619 handles the business growth and market entry strategy.

"When I joined The Foundry as a Business Co-Founder, I only had ambition, industry expertise and an idea in mind. They instantly weighed in with their insights and clear actionable steps. AfroStar is now live with over 35 000 users."

Frange Landry

Co-Founder AfroStar

"It all started with a hackathon : Factory 619 provided the guidance and the advise at first, then it evolved into a full fledged partnership. Since I joined The Foundry, Hablo went from the stage of an ambitious idea to a serious business project"

Moussir Rahmouni

Co-Founder Hablo

The Forge

Tailored services in Tech, Product building, and Innovation programs

MVP development

We work with startups in order to build a Minimum Viable Product and release it into the hands of users and early adopters. We provide our own Startup Studio expertise and process to ensure that product viability and fundamental features releases are guaranteed.

Growth Hacking

Both user acquisition and customer retention are crucial to the survival and growth of a product. We boost the most promising channels and drive exponential growth of your conversion rates while we assist you to decrease your CHURN, and contain it as much as possible.

Product Design

We provide Startups with well-structured and highly customized insights and consulting advice. We use a lean methodology in order to roll out a product roadmap with efficient prioritization as we leverage both our Studio expertise and our efficient I2P2P® process.

Custom development

While we excel at MVP Lean development, we still deeply believe that Agile methodologies are a must when it comes to large project scopes. Our Forge team uses a modern tech stack and is best suited to handle your custom requests and your specific project ideas, whether you're a startup founder or a corporate business unit.

Open & Co-Innovation

We build startups, we help others build their own, and we are connected to many startups and innovative ecosystems around the world. We can help streamline or reshape your industry. We offer our expertise in bridging the gaps of your ecosystem and allow you to roll out an actionable innovation framework.

Custom & Corporate Programs

Whether you are a university that's planning to run an incubation program on campus, or a corporate that's willing to plug an acceleration program or event (Ideation Camps, Hackathons, boot camps...) into your industry; We can provide you with the required resources and skills in order to innovate and prevent disruption.

Tech We're Passionate about

The Garage

Curating the Ecosystem & Enhancing Startups

Pre-Incubator Events

We believe that a healthy entrepreneurial ecosystem is a vibrant and evolving one. We work together not only with entrepreneurs and startups, but also other organizations like Accelerators, Incubators, and Tech Parks... We also provide the community with open Pre-Incubation series of events: Hackathons, Challenges, Ideations Camps, and Workshops.

Pre-Accelerator Programs

An intensive 9-week pre-acceleration program that provides both first-time, and seasoned entrepreneurs with the necessary resources and support they require to recast their business ideas, build up their MVP, and become ready to join next stage accelerators. Our Pre-Accelerator runs one vertical program per industry and it has 3 main focus areas.

Idea Validation

We kick-off our program by introducing you to the entrepreneurial mindset and startups ecosystem. You will then work on validating your business idea and perfectly understand your target market.

Product Validation

During the second phase of our Pre-Acceleration program, you will benefit from our resources and expertise to prototype or build an MVP that will accelerate your market validation effort.

Legal & Funding

The program main goal is to help you, as a team or a startup to reach the expected quality level and requirements that allow you to join next-stage accelerators, raise seed stage funds and successfully incorporate your company.

Purpose

We aim to enhance startups and ready them for the next-stages of their journey, once they validate their business idea

Target

Between 4 to 6 Startups or teams. Ranging from very early-stage first-timers, to early-stage experienced entrepreneurs.

Length

The program is made up of 3 phases and it stretches over a period of 9 Weeks.

Introduction

During the first week of the program, you will get introduced to the other teams in your cohort. You will meet our team, our speakers and mentors. You will get a deeper understanding about the purpose and the planning of the program. You will discover what it takes to develop an entrepreneurial mindset.

Week 2 - Q1/2019

Problem/Solution Fit

Achieving Problem/Solution Fit is crucial for the existence of every startup. During the second week of the program, you will make sure that your idea has no more risky assumptions. You know who your customer is and why your customer needs your product after precisely defining the problem you're solving. Once you get the proof that your solution is solving the problem effectively, we will work together to validate the economic, technical and legal feasability.

Week 3 - Q1/2019

Market Sizing

Having a product that people need does not essentially mean that you have a sustainable business. During the third week of the program, you will learn how to size your market and how to break it down into segments to catch the right metrics of your potential customers. You will work on identifying your Serviceable Available Market and Serviceable Obtainable Market.

Week 4 - Q1/2019

Product Design

We believe that good product design, based on the previous weeks work on Idea Validation — ensures you build the right product in terms of viability. During the fourth week of the program, you will start representing your validated idea into a set of prototypes and representation, iterate around a second round of users feedback, and obtaining initial insights on what should be implemented in your product and how your product roadmap should be prioritized.

Week 5 - Q2/2019

MVP

During the fifth week, you will get all the required tools and resources to start building your Minimum Viable Product. The crucial actions carried out during the past program's weeks will reveal themselves to be extremly valuable during the process of Product development. The expected outcome is to be able to put at the hands of your early adopters and customers the fundamental features of your product.

Week 6 - Q2/2019

Customer Acquisition

Half-way during the program, you will work on your product launch since it is the entry point of the Customer Acquisition process. Driving traction, rallying early adopters behind your product and gathering valuable users feedbacks. Setting up the right marketing channels and the top priority targeted users segment. Working closely with us on optimizing your conversion rates and analyzing the data collected afterwards.

Week 7 - Q2/2019

Product Validation

During the seventh week of the program you will understand that there’s only one way to make sure you are achieving Productfit : Confirming the assumption that not only your product is usefull, but it is also wanted and users are ready to pay for it..more than once ! You will work on your scores for engagement, and retention and you will optimize your product effectiveness.

Week 8 - Q2/2019

Legal & Management

Just like any business, a startup needs legal conformity, team management and a culture. During the eighth week of the program you will learn from our network of experts and mentors about what it takes to incorporate a company, manage it, hire the right people for it and shape its culture around the core values that you wish to represent. Our program is a vertical one, it will deeply tackle the specifications and the required legal framework behind each industry.

Week 9 - Q2/2019

Pitching & Networking

Acing the art of showcasing any product is the key to gain the right exposure and attention from investors, potential clients and accelerators. During the final week of the program, we will work together on your pitching skills. You will figure out how to present a fulfilled, yet concise pitchdeck to your audience. We will ready you for the much expected demo day where you will showcase your startup product to angel investors, funds, accelerators and partners.

meet the team

Mehdi Nakouri

Mehdi loves pushing challenging ideas and converting them into feasible actions. He shapes new ideas into ambitious startup projects and he sets the pace for execution. He gets fully involved in every aspect of every product. As a Founding Partner, Mehdi is the engineer of the Factory 619, he is the one shaping it into the major innovation hub that it is.

MD. Hédi Michau

He's the founder of our first Startup: Katomi. Part-time surgeon and part-time experienced entrepreneur, he knows how to turn ambitious startups into real companies. Hédi founded his first Tech company back in 2003 and built multiple growing businesses since. As a Founding Partner, he is the engine that makes the Factory 619 takes off the ground.

Hazem M'hiri

Hazem is a software engineer whose area of focus is full-stack JavaScript development & Game Design & development. He is both a techie and an artist. He brings his expertise onboard, Technical-wise and Product-wise. As a partner, he helps our startups build their MVPs.

Nizar Nouiri

Nizar is a top-tier consultant and a talented project manager. He spends his time breaking down our projects into a streamlined and organized flow of work. He has a deep understanding of customers needs and he's a great team leader. As a partner, Nizar leads The Forge division and meets our customers' expectations.

talk to us

Quick FAQ

What exactly is a Startup STudio ?

Factory 619 has a "Studio" division : It's a privately held company that builds other companies. It also provides services for both startups and corporates.

Are you a Startup Incubator in Tunisia ?

We don't run an incubation program per se. We practically incubate our own projects. However we have a Programs division "The Garage" that runs Pre-Incubation events and a Pre-Accelerator.

I have a business idea, can you help ?

Of course ! We run an open Co-Creation program "The Foundry". If there is a match, we can join forces and Co-Found a startup with you.

I already have a startup, can you help ?

It's fast-paced, short period program that focuses on helping entrepreneurs validate their ideas and getting set for next-stage accelerators.

What is a Pre-Accelerator ?

If you have a product in one of our main focus industries, then you can join our Pre-Accelerator Q1/2019.

What industry sectors do you focus on ?

We have expertise in E-Health, Gaming and Digital Transformation. We're also passionate about Blockchain. We prefer to support startups in those industries as we believe we would provide the most added value.

What if I'm targeting another market ?

We can still help you : We provide services in MVP development, Growth Marketing and Product Management. We can also connect you to our ecosystem partners (Incubators, Accelerators..)

Do you only work with Startups ?

We work with Corporates as well. We provide them with White Labeled Incubation programs, help them organize co-innovation tracks and open-innovation events.

Do you provide development services ?

Yes, we have a services division "The Forge" : It provides custom development of Web and Mobile Apps in modern javascript stacks.

How can you be reached ?

+216 29 49 27 23

info@factory619.com

Where are you located ?

We're curently located at Startup Haus

Tunis, Tunisia

Don't you have a Co-Working Space ?

We're currently moving to our new offices. We'll keep you updated regarding our new space.

Can I join your team ?

Of course ! If you have what it takes you could be a great candidate for us, just send us an email to indtroduce yourself.

One last thing, why 619 ?

619 is the Barcode prefix and product country of origin code for Tunisia.

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